The future for radioactive waste disposal in the United Kingdom: a Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee perspective

摘要

Following the Secretary of State's March 1997 refusal of planning permission for a rock characterization facility at Longland's Farm. Cumbria, and a change of government less than two months later, the long- term management of the UK's radioactive waste remains unresolved. This paper sets out the current Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's (RWNAC's) views on the best way forward, which it has input to the Select Committee enquiry.